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(No Model 0. F. DEPLANTY & E. E. WILSON. ATTACHMENT FOR WAGON SEATS.

No. 557,773. I Patented Apr. 7, 1896.

6%arles J T'D vlmd NTTED STATES PATENT OFFIGE.

CHARLES E. DEPLANTY AND ELMER E. IVILSON, OE OOFFEYVILLE, KANSAS; SAID WILSON ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS INTEREST TO EDYVARD ERNE AND .I. IV. UNOAPHER, OF SAME PLACE, AND SAID DEPLANTY ASSIGNOR TO SAID WILSON, ERNE, AND UNOAPHER.

ATTACHMENT FOR WAGON-SEATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 557 ,7 73, dated April '7, 1896.

Application filed January 22, 1896. Serial No. 576,449- (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: 4 for engaging the upper edge of the adja- Be it known that we, CHARLES E. DE- cent side of the wagon-body; but the hanger 5o PLANTY and ELMER E. TYILSON, citizens of instead of being constructed separate from the United States, residing at Cofifeyville, in the bar 1 may form a part thereof, especially 5 the county of Montgomery and State of Kanwhen the latter is made of metal.

sas, have invented a new and useful At- The clamp is substantially U-shaped and tachment for lVagon-Seats, of which the folhas a rigid engaging side 5 and a pivot-enlowing is a specification. gaging side 6, and the latter is automatically The invention relates to improvements in operated by upper and lower cams 7 and 8 1o attachments for wagon-seats. mounted on the hanger. The sides 5 and 6 The object of the present invention is to may be provided with teeth, corrugations, or improve'the construction of that class of any suitable surface for engaging the inner 6o wagonseat attachments which will enable and outer faces of the sides of the wagonwagon-seats to be adjusted longitudinally of body. The pivoted side 6 of the clamp is 15 a wagon-body and swing forward out of the substantially U-shaped and is engaged and way when desired, and to provide an autothrown outward away from the wagon-body matic locking device which, when a wagonwhen released from the cams by a spring 9 seat is slightly raised, will release the sides mounted on the body portion of the clamp of the body to permit a wagon-seat to be adand arranged within the U shaped side 6.

. 2o justed longitudinally of the same, and which, The body portion of the clamp is provided when swung upward, will reclamp automate witha pivot 12,0n which the hanger is mountically the body to hold the wagon-seat firmly ed, the hanger being preferably provided and securely in that position. with an opening to receive the pivot, and se- The invention consists in the construction cured to the same by a fastening device 13 25 and novel combination and arrangement of and a disk or washer 14.

parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated lVhen the hanger is in a vertical position, in the accompanying drawings, and pointed the cam 7, which is located beneath the pivot, out in the claims hereto appended. engages the movable side 6 of the clamp and In the drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal holds the same firmly in engagement with the 3 sectional view of a portion of a wagon-body wagon-body. Then the seat is slightly raised, having a seat mounted in accordance with the cam 7 is swung rearward and upward out this invention. Fig. 2 is a detail perspecof engagement with the movable side of the tive view of the automatic locking device. clamp, and the spring operates to throw the Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the movable side outward to release the wagon- 3 5 same. Fig. a is a detail perspective view of body to permit the seat to be adjusted longithe clamp. Fig. 5 is a similar view of the tudinally of the same. By swinging the seat hook-shaped hanger which carries the cams. upward and forward, as illustrated in dotted 8 5 Like numerals of reference designate correlines in Fig. l of the accompanying drawsponding parts in all the figures of the drawings, the upper cam 8 swings downward into 40 ings. engagement with the movable side 6 of the 1 designates a barconstructed of any suitclamp and causes the same to engage the able material adapted to support one of the wagon-body. The forward swing of the springs of the wagon-seat and provided at its wagon-seat is limited by the cam '7, which rear end with an inverted hook 2 for deengages a rib 15 of the body of the clamp.

45 tachably engaging the upper edge of one side It will be seen that the locking device is of a wagon-body. The front end of the bar automatic in its operation and is capable of is supported by a substantially hook-shaped releasing the wagon-body when the seat is 9 5 hanger 3, pivotally connected with the clamp partly raised to permit an adjustment of the same, and that it automatically clamps the wagon-body when the seat is in operative position or is swung forward out of the way.

Changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Yfhat we claim is 1. In a device of the class described, the combination of a clamp adapted to engage the upper edge of a wagon-body and provided with a movable side, and a hanger pivotally connected to the clamp adjacent to the movable side and provided with cams, disposed at opposite sides of the pivotal point and arranged to engage the movable side of the clamp, whereby the latter automatically engages the wagon-body when the side is in operative position or is swung forward, and is also capable of automatically releasing the wagon-body when the side is slightly raised, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination of a substantially U -shaped clamp adapted to engage the upper edge of a wagon-body, and provided with a pivoted side, a hanger pivotally connected with the clamp, and upper and lower cams mounted on the hanger and disposed at opposite sides of the pivot thereof and arranged to engage the movable side of the clamp, the lower cam forming a stop and adapted to engage the clamp to limit the swing of the hanger, substantially as described.

3. In a device of the class described, the combination of a clamp adapted to engage the upper edge of the wagon-body, and having a pivoted side, a spring bearing against the pivoted side and adapted to throw the same outward, a hanger pivoted to the clamp and provided with upper and lower cams arranged to engage the movable sides of the clamp, substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. In a device of the class described, the combination of a clamp composed of a body portion and a substantially U-shaped side pivoted to the body portion, a spring mounted on the body portion of the clamp and engaging the pivoted side thereof, a hook-shaped hanger pivoted to the'body portion of the clamp and cams mounted on the hanger and arranged to engage the movable side of the clamp, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto affixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES F. DEPLANTY. ELMER E. IVILSON. Vitnesses:

THos. ScURR, J12, S. MCHURTRY. 

